Moberly Weekly Monitor from Moberly, Missouri • Page 2

rrmnnie COWFAJT WELSZ President J. H. SIMS Vice-President G.FRANK ROTHWELI Seo'yTreas. fe G. F.

Editor, R. R. BOTHWELL, Gen. Mgr. ALBERT WELSZ, Foreman.

DAN KEUjIHER, City Editor. ate defender tho rights of individuals againbl official oppression and his judgments were those of a sound lawyer. His bit- Watered mail matter April 2, 1904, at the pott- office at Moberiy, Miiaouri, under net of March 8, .1879. North WilllMiis Telephone Number 324 Missouri's Railroads When -W. J.

Bryan returned trip and ownership from his European spoke of government of railroads as a future issue, -another one of his visionary 3 was the exclamation ot his critics. But we are catching up with the leader of political progress and today we are looking forward to the accomplishment of the fact. But, while we look forward it is already here, If Misouri does not own her railroads today, what is ownership One may do what he pleases witu his own and is the state not doing what is pleases with the railroads? Through tho power of regulation extended to the utmost limit and exercised by the Board of Public Utilities their earnings are fixed and their expenditures ordered. Neither can stockholders or the directors can exercise the incidents of their ownership until the State says terest enemies, outside oC Boss Murphy and his applaud his coin-so during the early part of his incumbency as mayor. Ho was tho sworn and efficient foe of! Tammany corruption.

Here ends tho story of well, ascertained fact. Judged, as ho asked to he judged, upon that alone, ho was a great moral force, scourging corruption from the strongholds of power. Keeent events have obscured all accused of seeking to intranch himself in power through a vis- cious charter for Greater New York. He has been accused of attempting to shield the police in the case of Becker and the gnu men. On the grounds that hu hindered the police, extortions and murders of the Black Hand leader of sedition and a fomenter oi! disturbances.

She is tho product of a modern social uistem- per now quiescent in this country, but which 'is ready to respond to her appeal. Her power for injury lies in her representative character of criminal emotional egotism. She is not coming here to live a quiet decorous life. She has already arranged for her inflammatory itinerary and she will- tie her fire to little foxes and turn them loose in the fields of. the Philistines.

She possesses moral turiptude in its contageous form. If Mr. Uhl fails to find it in her NATURE'S CHILDREN 53 If had been bom in the heart' of the wilderness and had lived on that same spot for 86 years, with very little change in yon i' i mini edi ate surr oundin gs, and somebody were'to come to you and tell you stories of railroads and trolleys, steamboats, skyscrapers, theatres, gar- ONE PRICE record he will have no trouhle in. finding it in her walce after land- ng. Penal Reform.

The State Penitentiary is under the supervision of a board of Prison Examiners, It is also vis- thc day of his death he was pictured as one who stood as an independent candidate for mayor only because a surrender to Tammany had failed to win favor from that organization. Let final judgment go until the smoke of the political battle rolls by, but be assured that- this man did not come to his sixtieth year a militant champion of civic honesty and degenerate Jnto the base thing his enemies pictured hi rain one year Louis Kopublic. the state, by citizens and hers of the legislature. This publicity has corrected many of its worst defects. Where the light shines in, intolerable conditions are soon removed.

The jails arc the places most neglected and their reform is most difficult. State Charities Commission of Tl- Jinois has just made a report on Chicago's jails which is called a sensational disclosure. If the State Board of Charities and Corrections would make public the conditions of many Missouri jails, the report would be just as em- the yes or no. The State has ployed an expert to boss construction of their crossings, lowers their rates, examines then- books and forces obedience from their 'operators. The servitude of the railroads seems complete and leaves little to be desired for the mere name of it.

If this Mems hard, it must be remembered that the roads are largely to blame. They policy of agresaive greed until in the State has in chains. The artificial person is at last a slave. Only Truth Can Kise Again In all seriousness, Representative Anderson has raised a question deserving candid consideration. His own determination ot the matter proves him to be an (honest and conscientious man.

Mr. Anderson asks "why should 1 remain a member of the ways and means committee when my vote counts for nothing?" Then he proceeds to answer his question by resigning. Mr. Anderson, be it known, belong to the minority Republican party. If then Mr.

Andersons protests on the committee are thrown away, wherein does his iriembership in Congress stand on any better ground? And if Mr. Anderson is of no further use to his country because he is a Re- Some of the abuses Chicago are as fol- Mayor Cktynor The death of Mayor William J. Gaynor comes in the midst of his battle for re-election, when political loyalty and political hate combine to obscure the truth as to all his recent doings and to warp the of those who would best be able to say what 'manner of man he was. In one of Mayor Gaynor's many interviews ho discussed his idea of what a newspaper should and said the newspapers acver to discuss the character and motives of men except upon facts 'which had been clearly ascertained. From the beginning of his public career up to about the time of the attempt upon his life in August, 1911, the story of Mayor Gaynors life reads clearly.

There is no dispute about essential things, and xipon those undisputed facts his ohar- acter stands out as that of a deadly enemy of corruption, a champion of the rights of the people in court and an executive who feared no power but the people. As the flood tide of his popularity Mayor Gaynor was a figure to arouse the enthusiasm of a nation. After the beginning oi: the practice of law his first public act was to open war upon the illicit liquor dealers of Flatbush. He closed their dives and sent them to jail. Going to Brooklyn he Ht- first attacked the corrupt politicians of that city, stopped a steal a million dollars and compelled public service corporations to pay iinonso sums taxes which they had been dodging under the protection of the bosses, carrying on the fight as a private citizen and largely at his own expense.

Elected a judge of the supreme court, he was instrumental in sending tho notorious John Y. McKane to prison and in breaking up his corrupt political ring at Gravesend. As a judge, the rapidity with which he administered justice was bewildering to his slow-going associates. He was a passion- publican and resigns, unless his logic is at fault, why should not an exodus of the faithful follow? Why not all Republican Representatives quit 7 "There can be no justification for a minority party going down sensational, reported in Jows Cells under water from backed sewers. Four to ten men lodged in one eellroom.

Children and minors placed cells with hardened criminals. Dirty roller towels used by both diseased and clean prisoner s. Boards used for beds in most of the police stations. 1 Filthy mattresses, covered witih vermin, used in many of the police stations. Cells facing blank, solid" walls, with only a few bars oil front to admit light aiici air.

Cells- used at times for tention of stray clogs. The inquiry was made by the commission's own investigators, the the de- to defeat day after day unless party stands for principles' clothe it in the invuhiera- ble armor of right. There is, no hope for persistence to those who. espouse error. The courage of martyrdom is the conviction oi truth'.

Panoplied in principles humanity's service, a single Republican could walk through the fiery furnace -of opposition or stand with the dignity of good conscience justification. who visited all of the penal institutions of the State. Our State Board knows that there is nothing sensational about this in Missouri. It is the chronic condition of most of the old jails. The State Board is contented with embalming its investigations in reports never to be seen except by statisticians.

If the money spent for one year's salary the secretary and for printing was paid out to a few reporters to- write up the nails, they would be-reformed. dens and parks, would it excite your curiosity? Most likely not. Betty Elliott, who has lived on. such a place as described, and who is well along towards 90, had that identical proposition put up to her recently; she was told of all tfce wonderful tilings she might see in a great city, and of tho surprising journey there 011 the steam cars, and jill these marvels would not cost her a cent; that a man who wanted to see her enjoy herself would foot, "the bill and-bring'her home safe and sound. The old lady smiled kindly, her eyes sparkled a bit and this is what she said: "I wouldn't mind riding a few miles on the steam cars just to say I had, but to one o' them big cities and get jostled 'round, I reckon'not.

I'd rather be hero where there's room." Miss Elliott (she was never married) did take an automobile Tide last summer, "I told 'em something would happen if we started out in that tiling and I wanted 'cm to fetch the mules she. said, "but they only laughed at me. Well, I got in and it went along nil right until we got about ten miles of the village when there was a funny noise for a minute or two and we stopped. The man said the engine went dead. When I said he ought've fetched the mules hc didn't laugh: any more but said he wished he had.

"We jyq.t towed in to-town and'I got out and never rode in one afeain i But like to ride on thesteam cars- just and there was a wistful expresion on tho kindly old face. Jordan. Elliott, a brother, aged 82, lives with Miss Elliott the farm on Gun Creek, west FELDENHEIMEB'S Announcement for Fall 1913 Dame Fashion has just arrived at New York and has taken up her abode on the second floor the and thig incomp arable line before you One Price to All and the Price Right FELDENHEIMER'S ONE PRICE ONE PRICE on and wait for of Jacksonville, Mo. Perry Elliott, who was a few years younger than Jordan, cornmitited suicide in June, 1911, because he felt himself failing physically, and thought he oughten't to live if he didn't work. Neither of the three had ever married.

They were the older children of Elliott's large family, and upon them seemed to devolve the care of the farm and seeing that the younger children were properly 'brought up and married, time their responsibility But the good an Mr. Ander- party separated from the bad and he representes the perishable platform. Though per- to be a good sonally he seems fellow he is philosopher enougn to see tho end of a useless struggle and honest enough to admit it. It is his duty now to open the eyes of his follow members and lead them back from serving tho powerful few to the promotion of the life-giving principles of 'Democracy. Byron's Duty.

It is not at all certain, says of are is Byron H. Unl, commissioner immigration, "that Mrs. Pankhurst will be detained at Ellis Island. Her actions in England being investigated and if she found guilty of moral turpitude she will be detained. 53 Inherent baseness, extreme depravity and shameful wickedness are the synonyms of turpitude and if the immigration officials are making an impartian Investigation of this woman's life she has small chance to reach the United States.

That she is guilty of moral tin-- pitude may be shown by her daily diary. She has been convicted as a and an habitual criminal. "XBut the scope of her power for evil is not confined to her Hensoption The Missouri hen has won another victory. Down at Kingston, because the town jail has been vacant as a domicile for unruly persons for many months, it was sold at auction, and is now used by Bole Brown for a hen house. Lanta Oliver, for fifteen years town policeman, has resigned.

Years ago Oliver and the jail did a thriving business, but the town was wet then. The hen as a commercial asset is supported by; a long of statistics. As a social reformer this is her debut. One of the ground sills used to support the liquor business has been that there would he nothing to supply its place. The hen makes answer.

First dry your territory then sell the jails for hen houses and use eggs. A. goose saved Rome. Why not tho lien save Missouri? bil the God-fearing -'people, much like other farmer-folk of the neighborhood the only difference being that they have not taken to improvements and changes that have been going on around them. They are living pretty much the'same method they did when children, seeing no particular reason-for changes.

Neither ot them have ever spoken through a telephone. Once or twice Jordan has ma'dc short business trips on railroads. Both are suspicions of theautomobile. GOOD NEWS Many Moberiy Readers Heard it and Profited Thereby Have -Good news travels fast" and the thousands of had luck sufferers in Moberiy are glad to learn here relief may he found. Many Rather Uniquie, at Least Among the seven noted men who were to speak at the opening exercises of a new school was a professor who was noted for lapses of memory- But his speech was clear that night and as he seated himself his loving wife felt that he had fully earned the hurst of applause that fol- A Kansas man lost a and advertised for it, says Kansas City Star? In a day or two a man appeared in his office saying that he had seen the advertisement and handed him the bill.

In a few days the Kansas man was going through his "other" clothes and found the original bill which he thought he had lost. Notwithstanding the fact that the events in this story may sound suspicious, the lesson Lsy the ended, the two older sons and their sis- Betty, felt they had in each other the familiy that was accessary and they lived and worked on the old home place just as they had when youngsters, The land and other property would easily bring $100,000, as their farm now comprises two thousand acres, a great deal of it. coal and timber land. Until very recently the Elliotts lived just as they did in the pioneer their land rails, made their barns out of logs and poles, threw flat rocks on the roofs to keep the wind from blowing the boards and shingles away and lived the simple life as perfectly as did then- parents, who came from Kentucky in the early days. Aii old mission bell near their house summons Jordan and the hired man to dininer.

Near by are a lot of smooth flat stones Jordan and Perry" brought from the creek bed in the to build a well, but somehow they never got to it, and all the wa- Kidney Pills. Citizens are to teil the good news of their' experience with this tested reme- lowed and she clapped hei little cheeks crimsoned. "Did you see anything amusing about the close of my address personal trespasses, She is obvious. ter used conies from a spring mile hack in the some quarter forest. Here lately the house has been repaired and fixed up'a hit so it won't leak, but trees and brusu areallowed to come almost up to it.

The front yard Js carpeted Math chips that have been accumulating for more than half a century. The Elliotts are clean, honest, Death Notice Mrs. Eose Davis died Thursday evening at 10 o'clock of tuberculosis of the lungs at the hospital, Fulton, aged 46 years and 9 months. She leaves a mother, Mrs. Bloomfield, a brother, Wm.

Sour- col, of Monroe, and a daughter, Miss Pearl Davis of St.Louis. A half brother, Dan Bloomfieid, and two half sisters, Mrs. Cecelia Craig and Mrs. Laura Neal of. East St.

Louis, also survive her Funeral services will be held from St. John's Catholic church Sunday afternoon, conducted by the Eev. Father Carney. Tntet- ment will be in-Oakland cemetery. Paris Fair Lost Money The Paris Fair Association lost between $500 and $600 this year This is attributed to the drouth and hot weather.

At an election of directors of the the following directors, most of them young men, were chosen: John H. Brayton, R. M. Brown Dr S. Bodine, Perin Brace Chester Callis, Claud M.

Bodine Bmmett Sparks, Joe B. Murphy J. T. Scobee. reading: Mrs.

G-. Patrick is reporter seriously ill at his home in thi city Mr. Patrick is an of 'Ed Bupp. He is suffering with typhoid fever and while hi condition is serious his many friends join The "Monitor in the hope that he will soon be restored to health. W.

Lucas, 290 North seemed as if I Moberiy, says: backaches, head- heard sounds of ddney secretions were tomato- al. i did not rest and all tu ed and nornings felt 0 a box of Doan's Kidney PUU them. Murder Moberiy police They "have re- night 'were asked by Harry L. 1CI- TJ t-i'l I -ft 'inches tall and weighing Foster-Milburn 5 -r Buffalo, New York, sole for the United States. Remember tho take no other.

Joy-Kiding on Foot The saddest spectacle witnessed during the late fair was, that of and Winfrey, bringing home their best girls from the fair. The boys had been princely extravagant, buying cream, candies and other "goodies," and had rididen the "Flying Dutchman" every few minutes, forgetting that money ways. So, whei to go home the boys in their jeans," but the agents and and pies." Davis dcr, accordii Chief Hinton and all men searched the city for lie- Friday night, but could find if him and it is not belie is in Moberiy. Issued Marriage License John H. King of this city and Chapman of ited a marriage li- iy by Circuit Clerk Mars ia and'the ceremony will will not last al- today at the home the are an esti- couple and have the oest of The Monitor for a long little girls looked sad and crest- Qrineta ad carae through all Pioneer News.

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